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POETRY: Tell Them, by Edwina Gateley
Breaking through the powers of darkness bursting from the stifling tomb he slipped into the graveyard garden to smell the blossomed air. Tell them, Mary, Jesus said, that I have journeyed far into the...
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RESURRECTION: The Glad Surprise, by Howard Thurman
From Meditations of the Heart There is ever something compelling and exhilarating about the glad surprise. The emphasis is upon glad. There are surprises that are shocking, startling, frightening, and...
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RESURRECTION: Always And Forever, the Final Word, by Richard Rohr
From Sick, and You Cared For Me “Think of what is above, not of what is on Earth.” Don’t you often wonder why so much of human life seems so futile, so tragic, so short, so sad? If Christ has risen,...
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RESURRECTION: The Strangest Story Of All, by C. S. Lewis
From God in the Dock We come to the strangest story of all, the story of the Resurrection. It is very necessary to get the story clear. I heard a man say, “The importance of the Resurrection is that...
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POETRY: The Dawning, by George Herbert
Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns; Take up thine eyes, which feed on earth; Unfold thy forehead gather’d into frowns: Thy Savior comes, and with him mirth: Awake, awake; And with a thankful...
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POETRY: Descending Theology — The Resurrection, by Mary Karr
From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched in—black ice and blood ink— till the hung flesh was empty. Lonely in that void even for pain, he missed his splintered feet, the human...
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HEALING: Jesus And His Wounds, by Robert Schreiter
From The Ministry of Reconciliation The risen Jesus is a survivor. He has been through abuse and torture. He has been beaten, mocked, and had thorns pressed into his head. He has experienced public...
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SERMON: Why Stand There Looking Up Toward Heaven?, by C. S. Song
From And Their Eyes Are Opened So when they [the disciples] had come together, they asked him [Jesus], “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for...
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MIRACLES: One Little Yes, by Mark Batterson
From The Grave Robber Do you believe this? (John 11:26) After asserting his identity as the resurrection and the life, Jesus pops a point-blank question that punctuates Martha’s life: Do you believe...
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JESUS: In That Moment Right Before
I would say that, most of the time, when I hear scripture read, or read it for myself, it feels like the wind to me. Something blowing by me. I recognize the elements that are in the wind, but it is...
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POETRY: Newness Of Life, by Tania Runyan
South African man wakes after 21 hours in morgue fridge. What cold salvation, dragging fingernails through the frost of a half-dream then waking to a plastic cocoon. The louder you scream from your...
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Station 15 — The Resurrection, by Joan Chittister
From: The Way of the Cross The Experience Perhaps the most difficult – even spiritually dangerous – dimension of the Stations of the Cross is that lacking a sense or slightest awareness of...
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BLESSING: Blessing Of The Resurrection, by Peter John Cameron
From: Blessing Prayers Word of God Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the...
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POETRY: We Take The Sky, by Susanna Childress
We take the sky, as if red is something we could own, something we might find in the stillest moments, as if the earth is humane and wouldn’t break our bones. (None of His were broken. Not one.) Red is...
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SERMON: Created For Glory, by L. R. Tarsitano
The First Sunday after Easter “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the Earth; Even every one that is called by...
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EASTER SERMON: The Wounds Of Jesus, by C. C. Lovelace
From The Sanctified Church, by Zora Neale Hurston Our theme this morning is the wounds of Jesus. When the Father shall ask, What are these wounds in thine hand? He shall answer, Those are they with...
View ArticlePRAYER: Easter by Adam of St. Victor
I see flames of orange, yellow, and red shooting upwards to the sky, piercing the whole clouds. I see the clouds themselves chasing the flames upwards, and I feel the air itself reaching for the...
View ArticlePRAYER: The Miracle Of Easter from The Gelasian Sacramentary
The moment we have longed for has come; the night of our desires is here. What greater occupation could there be than for us to proclaim the power of your resurrection! This was the night when you...
View ArticlePRAYER: If You Were Not Risen by Brother Roger of Taize
If you were not risen, Lord Christ, to whom would we go to discover a radiance of the face of God? If you were not risen, we would not be together seeking your communion. We would not find in your...
View ArticlePRAYER: Born Anew To A Living Hope by K. B. Ritter
Almighty and everlasting God, through the death and resurrection of your Son you have proclaimed to us the gospel of peace. Grant that by the power of his resurrection we may be born anew to a living...
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